News Coverage of "1999 A.D."

Just saw this news clip today and wanted to share it for anyone who thinks that the future we know today was never envisioned some 40 years ago. Even Wink Martindale who starred in the old film forgot about it. LOL

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• 1999
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[Asiadventure]

I watched this in my first-grade class in 1970. I remember how some students argued that few could afford the seemingly expensive computers shown in the movie. I said at the time that someday computers would be as ubiquitous as TVs and telephones in the home. Well, here I am surrounded by 4 PCs in my home office - where I also do a lot of online shopping as shown in the film. I've not yet bought the wall-size, flat-screen TV seen in the film - but that's next.

[beducorn]

hey i bet the people who made the video were Time travelers LOL

[deanmullen10]

@DocGerbilzWorld and yet if u think about it one could imagine a machine in the future able to imagine greater than we can now or way to increase our imagination, now you realize we are pretty much not limited at all.

[DocGerbilzWorld]

we are limited only by our imaginations... and physics.

[SailorSaturn69]

Most everyone who saw this was watching something on Chrono Trigger.

[salexo9]

Why is this supposed to be surprising? Of course today's realities were envisioned decades ago. What I find entertaining about the 1999 AD film is that they got the the basics about internet etc right, but reality of it all wrong. Like using seperate computers and monitors for all the seperate functions in the household. Or the reality of gender roles in 1999.

[thelostrune]

@TheAb0rtionist Lol you're CT fan =P

[ilovemayo123]

i don't think that it's all that amazing that they got it right. There were so many predictions flying around... all of disney's were way off in left field. Someone was bound to get somewhere close!

[TheAb0rtionist]

@DestructorKoopa BUT THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE

[MyYTFaves]

This seems to be an expounding on the Bell Picturephone, and early ideas of computing, databases and the Bell Dataphone, all from the early 1960s. Here they are envisioned as refined and practically applied to daily life. Today they are a reality. A bell labs video from the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair accurately predicted switching stuff off and on via telephone. Something that's common on today's smartphones.

[Ditherliss]

Hey 9 News, just because someone is smarter than you or more imaginative doesn't wean their a Witch. I though we got over this over 200 years ago.

[recto89]

CNN ran with this video on Cambell Browns the Future. I noticed that the reason that the KCAL9 producers thought it was a hoax mainly because most of the porducers were born in the 1980's and never saw this film until it came to this site. They only saw 1990's films about the future.